This small bird occurs from eastern Panama to the mountains on the Colombia border. It has a dark olive body with a pale yellow throat and breast.
Adults have a dark olive head and back, a pale yellow throat, and dull yellow breast and belly. The sexes have the same plumage.
It forages for insects at different forest levels in pairs or groups of up to about six, and regularly joins mixed-species feeding flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.